Sifting-shovel.



No. 782,854. PATENTED FEB. 21, 1905.

W. T. JOHNSON. SIPTING SHOVEL.

, APPLICATION FILED NO V.17, 190s.

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WITNESSES:

BY QWQW ATTORNEY:

* UNITED STATES Patented February 21, 1905.

WILLIAM T. JOHNSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SlFTlNG-SHOVEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,854, dated February 21, 1905.

Application filed November 17, 1903. $eria1No. 181,506.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM T. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sifting-Shovels,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates especially to means for separating cinders and unconsumed coal from ashes particularly for domestic use, and has for its object the provision of a very simple. cheap, and effective sifting-shovel.

To attain the desired end, my invention consists, essentially, in a sifting-shovel-preferably made of a single piece of wire bent and curved in such a manner as .to form parallel bars, partitions, or fingers, all of which will be hereinafter first fully described and then pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a sifting-shovel embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of a modified form of handle made of the wire constituting the body of the shovel.

Similar numerals of reference Wherever they occur indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

1 1 are the bars or fingers of the shovel, the inner ends being curved upward at 2 2 and the side portions 3 3 raised above the level of the fingers l. The ends of the wires are twisted together, as at 4, and are connected to a manipulating-handle 5, as in Fig. 1 of thedrawings, or themselves constitute a hancure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a siftingshovel consisting of a handle from which extends a continuous wire bent back and forth upon itself forming a series of open loops or fingers,the outer side wires constituting sides for the shovel, and the inner extremities of the loops bent upward, forming a back, substantially as shown and described.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this16th day of November, A. D. 1903.

IVILLIAM T. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

A. M. PIERCE, KAREN LARSEN. 

